Quotes About Adaptation

I've grown over the years and I know how to adapt to situations, where I can go into a situation where there's a crowd of people and just take over. But pretty much I'm off to myself. And I'm totally committed to the game of football. That's why I've had so much success.

Well, if you look back, in almost two and a half years, the biggest change probably was in late 2000 when we decided to totally change the CA business model.

Many companies don't exist after 25 years. It's a rarity. Or if they do exist, they're like IBM, with a totally changing personality.

I kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in.

The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.

As the reducibly complex mousetrap reminds us, we shouldn't let the intimidating sophistication of the final product trick us into thinking that it couldn't have come about via numerous small steps.

To improve our current understanding of the laws of physics, we have to be open to the possibility that we're gonna invent more words, more concepts, and more ways of looking at the same universe, that help us recast those laws, extend them, generalise them, and go beyond what we currently know, into the physics that we don't yet understand but hope someday to do.

which have developed over the years with no specific purpose in mind, tend to be more flexible, multipurpose, and self-repairing.

The future ain't what it used to be, but it's coming right at us, regardless.

If at first you don't succeed, look in the trash for the instructions.

An unexpected dead end in one journey is merely an opportunity to set a new course for another.

An unexpected dead end in one journey is merely an opportunity to set a new course for another. Losing what we have can only do us real harm when we feel we can't create it, or something equally valuable or compelling, again, and that ability resides squarely in our imagination.

Don't tell me it wasn't my fault; that's no damn good to me. Just tell me how to keep from going crazy, will you? Just tell me how to survive.

Fear is neither a disease nor a perversion. Fear is our most essential survival mechanism. It has many forms and functions. The mouse staring into the snake's face doesn't apologize for its interest.

some things could never be anticipated, but he could control the way he reacted to them.

Like Riina, my people have been cast out and ostracized from the place in which we feel we belong. It almost killed us, but as have many others in such situations, we found our own way to survive.

But superior evolution does not free us from situations that challenge us or occasions on which we must act in ways we find abhorrent. All it gives us is the capacity to see with greater clarity why we do what we must do—to see beyond the present, to where our actions might lead. The evolution we have wrought for ourselves gives us perspective, nothing more, and the new altitude from which we observe the world requires a keen sense of balance. We remain

His people had hogs there till the bottom fell out of hogs. The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as I could see. So it was with the world, restless, kind of brutal. Always going on. Not waiting for no man.

but creatures so long kennelled and confined find freedom and release very problematic attainments

a person I have come to accept in the way of things here, which, if they can't be changed, they must be endured.

This goes to prove yet again that few people stick to the articles of their characters, and will keep breaking away from them.

might be a later addition.

has been changed. The jars of boiled sweets still hypnotize the children after school. Even the newcomers

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.